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title: Yo, what was the Queen's stepsister's big mistake? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Lit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the Queen's stepsister's big mistake? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1559 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood: a kind girl and a rude girl get very different gifts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood:…

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Yo, what was the Queen's stepsister's big mistake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big mistake

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1559 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood: a kind girl and a rude girl get very different gifts» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1559-pg540-part56/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1559-pg540-part56:t12:1
# text = Yo, what was the Queen's stepsister's big mistake?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Queen's stepsister's big mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Being greedy with the gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1559-pg540-part56:t12:o1:1
# text = Being greedy with the gold coins
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the gold coins; greedy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Being cruel to her own sister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1559-pg540-part56:t12:o2:1
# text = Being cruel to her own sister
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to her own sister; cruel *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Being rude and greedy to the little men who had given her a kind chance

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1559-pg540-part56:t12:o3:1
# text = Being rude and greedy to the little men who had given her a kind chance
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect |  | a kind chance | her *= she* |  |  | to the little men | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Being rude and greedy to the little men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1559-pg540-part56:t12:o4:1
# text = Being rude and greedy to the little men
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the little men; rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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